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Free Healthy Recipe - Warm Avocado, Zucchini, Mint and Broad Bean Salad

Dairy free, Low carbohydrate, Low GI, Low sugar, Wheat Free

Broad beans (also known as fava beans) are a good source of plant protein, zinc, folate, thiamine and fibre. They also serve as a carbohydrate providing an excellent source of sustaining energy. It's worth knowing that one cup of broad beans provides more than double the fibre of a potato. If you've never tried broad beans before or you're introducing them to someone for the first time, make the effort to remove the skin. It may provide extra fibre but can be tough and bitter tasting. An experience that may put you off beans forever.

This salad is delicious on its own or served as a bed under grilled snapper fillet, or with crumbled goat's cheese.

Ingredients
1 cup dried broad beans, (frozen are fine also)
1 piece kombu
4 zucchini washed and sliced into fine long shavings
½ bunch fresh mint
2 tbsp olive oil
½ lemon juiced
½ tsp sumac
Method

Cooking dried beans:
Soak the beans overnight. Drain and place in a pan with 4 cups fresh water and the khombu. Bring to the boil before turning down the heat to simmer for 25 minutes or until tender (this can vary significantly depending on the age of the dried bean). Remove the kombu and discard.
Once the beans are cool, remove the skin by making a small slit in its side with a small knife and squeezing the bean out with your thumb and index finger.

Brush the zucchini lightly with olive oil and place on a grill lined with baking paper under a medium flame until cooked and slightly browned at the edges. (approx 4 -5 minutes)
Mix the olive oil, lemon, sumac pepper and 2 tsp chopped mint in a small jar.
Arrange the zucchini on plates with beans, avocado and fresh mint leaves. Drizzle with the lemon and sumac dressing.

Tip Broad beans are in season between June to October but availability is often much narrower. Frozen broad beans are available all year round. They're still extremely nutritious and take a fraction of the time that dried beans take to prepare.

Makes 4 servings

Scale recipe to serves

Prep Time: overnight
Cooking Time: 40 mins
Ready in: 45 mins


Suitable for:
Entree, Salad, Side Dish
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Nutritional Information - Per Serve
Kj 958 kj
Calories 229 kcal
Fat 18.9 g
Saturated Fat 3.3 g
Total Carbohydrate 6.3 g
Total Protein 6.3 g
Fibre 2.5 g


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